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...beneath the bloody mayhem lies the same knotty issue that the Republican presidential candidate has himself been working hard to articulate: How do we keep home, hearth and the middle-class dream from eroding in a world ravaged by crime, drugs and sexual confusion? Profiler's Samantha Waters (Ally Walker) and Millennium's Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) are obsessed not with the individual madmen who each week slice and dice their way into the crime fighters' paths but with keeping the world impenetrably safe for their small children...
...ardor for the Gypsy. Like the Schindler's List commandant with his pretty Jewish captive, the judge both loves Esmeralda and hates the love she makes him feel. Frollo's aria, Hellfire, is a clashing symphony of red and black: crimson-shrouded ghosts line his way to a raging hearth, where he shouts out his twisted passion. This one will be hard to explain to the kids. But then Disney animation, from Snow White to The Lion King, is a parade of grim fairy tales about death, separation, betrayal. Hunchback has new traumas for the little ones; they will...
...they are too closely identified with TV roles in which they essentially play themselves. Perhaps their very living-room familiarity makes it impossible for them to be fully convincing on the larger-than-life movie screen. For whatever reason, the stars with whom viewers get cozy around the TV hearth are rarely the same ones they surrender to when the lights go down at the multiplex...
Women appear to take it harder than men. The overwhelming majority of the participants in postquake counseling sessions -- sometimes all of the participants -- are women. One hypothesis is that the female nesting instinct is especially offended by a quake's threat to home and hearth. More manifestly, women are more demonstrative and vocal about their anxieties. Men, who may be just as nervous, are culturally conditioned to hide it. "Fearfulness knows no gender," says Gellert. Experts disagree about the probable duration of the stress. Gellert points to a classic formulation in mass psychology known as the "six-week model...
...HOME AND HEARTH...